..The actress Jean Seberg was born in Marshalltown, Iowa.
She made her film debut at the age of 19 and impersonated the title
role in the American production "Saint Joan" (57).

She became famous with it overnight and made her next film again with
director Otto Preminger - "Bonjour tristesse" (58).

After the movie "The Mouse That Roared" (59) with Peter Sellers followed
her greatest triumph with Jean-Luc Godard's "A bout de souffle" (60). Jean
Seberg and her film partner Jean-Paul Belmondo
became stars, the movie itself went into film history.

Jean Seberg became an international actress in the next years who appeared
in Europe as well as in the USA.
To her movies of the 60's belong "Les grandes personnes" (61), "In
the French Style" (63), "Echappement libre - Der Boss hat sich was ausgedacht"
(64) - again with Jean-Paul Belmondo, "Lilith" (64) - with an impressive
Jean Seberg in the title role, "Diamantenbillard" (65), "La ligne de démarcation"
(66), "A Fine Madness" (66) with Sean Connery, "La route de Corinthe" (67)
and the western "Paint Your Waggon" (69) with Clint Eastwood.